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Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share
An anonymous reader writes: Six months after its release, Windows 10 has finally passed 10 percent market share. Not only that, but the latest and greatest version from Microsoft has also overtaken Windows 8.1 and Windows XP, according to the latest figures from Net Applications. Windows 10 had 9.96 percent market share in December, and gained 1.89 percentage points to hit 11.85 percent in January. Maybe it will jump even faster soon, but not necessarily for the best of reasons.
Unfortunately this is no a limbo contest. Crossing such a low bar of an obsolete unsupported os installs with a flag ship os that older os try to force on you is not impressive.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Many websites are blocking Windows XP as it doesn't support stronger than SHA-1 certs so the numbers will be skewed. Win XP clients will be invisible to Net applications metrics.
Microsoft is forcing people to update, which makes these numbers meaningless. The only people who arn't going to update are the ones with the knowledge to block it.
This is like saying murders are way down, but ignoring to mention that you've put the entire population in straight jackets.
The fact that despite these strong-arming efforts, they're *still* only just now surpassing XP and Win8, says a lot about how much people don't want this latest and not-so-greatest OS.
I feel bad for Microsoft developers. When I tried the OS, I actually *liked* it. But then Microsoft had to go screw everything up with their OS-as-a-privacy-killing-service bullshit.
The biggest problem is they've decided that users don't get a vote in if they want this, they've decided to shove in additional tracking and ad infrastructure without telling people or having them opt-in, and have more or less decided it's their computer and not yours.
It is, and remains MY FUCKING COMPUTER. Whether or not I upgrade it isn't their choice.
And given their track record, I'm also betting they're going to leave people with borked systems, and then refuse to do anything about it.
Everything about this upgrade is largely stuff which benefits Microsoft, and which is being done TO their users ... because all those people who will now get "you must get auto-updates which we will do anything we wish with your computer", those people are eventually going to get screwed by that idiotic policy.
Don't fucking act like Microsoft is doing this to benefit people. All that extra telemetry and ad information is to benefit them.
Windows 10 is basically spyware.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Whether they *should* and whether they *must* or *can* provide bugfix/security updates for old platform is a different thing. No you will not get a refund on your 10 year old copy of Windows when you are no longer able to run it either.
Note that as much bitching there is about MS, there isn't really a game in town with a better track record. Windows 7 is older than Ubuntu 10.04, but Ubuntu EOLed 10.4 last year even for servers (and much earlier for desktops). Centos6 came out two years after 7, but will EOL at the same time as Windows 7.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
I was called to a friend's house to fix his PC. He has downloaded and installed the Windows 10 update on his Win 7, HP-1100 series box. The box itself is completely stock because my friend doesn't know much about the inner working of PCs.
Either way, Windows 10 refused to see the CDROM/DVD drive, which, being HP, is I believe is also a lightscribe burner. But I digress.
Hardware manager took a long time to find, but once found, was useless. It's not that it didn't recognize the hardware due to a lack of driver, it's as if the hardware physically did not exist. You couldn't even force Windows to try looking for it because it claimed there were no hardware problems.
So, I go to HP's website to try and find a driver that would force Windows to admit a CD drive existed. HP's site offer to diagnose my PC's problems. I let it. Animated graphic cycles for what seems like a day, and then I get the wonderful message "An error has occurred, please try again later" Bullshit -- this has probably never worked, but HP won't admit that. I try and manually find the driver based on the Box's model.
There are no drivers available for this machine. At least, nothing for Windows 10. How is this possible?
I was unwilling to take apart the machine to find the type of CD drive it is (assuming HP had marked anything), so, with little choice left, I had Win 10 degrade itself back to Win 7.
After 30 minutes of that; we were back to Windows 7 and the CD drive worked as expected.
Windows 10 is a piece of shit, and it's apparently an unsupported piece of shit. Why are there no drivers or any way to force Windows 10 to look for a common piece of hardware? a CD/DVD drive? That's like not recognizing a mouse.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
There are some extremely limited religious exemptions to Obamacare, which cover the Amish objection to insurance.
Apparently the house has even debated (but not passed yet?) an exemption for people like Christian Scientists (and you thought military intelligence was an oxymoron) totally opposed to any healthcare.
You could, of course, argue that there may be circumstances where a person who objects to healthcare or insurance getting into an accident and being rushed to the hospital. Unconscious and not identifiable as a Christian Scientist, they undergo a life-saving operation and recuperate for days in intensive care before regaining consciousness and/or being identified to loved ones.
Bam! Now they have incurred tens of thousands of dollars in health care for which they cannot (and may refuse on religious grounds?) to pay for.
Obviously there's enough ethical questions there to start a whole podcast series for, but you can make an argument that they got care that now somebody else may have to pay for.